Example sentences of "their [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement . |
| 2 | It 's their enthusiasm that inspires me . |
| 3 | There is no easy solution to the problem this creates for treaty parties : it is to their advantage that a treaty be widely recognised as normative , and they can not deny the application of customary law to a single State . |
| 4 | Humans are a priori sociable beings ; it is their co-operativeness that has enabled them to survive , not their aggressive impulses . |
| 5 | The pressures for independence or at least a greater measure of autonomy that emerged in the Baltic republics were the most serious of their kind that the Soviet leadership had to confront in the early Gorbachev years . |
| 6 | Some things are going to have to last you a very long time and withstand a great deal of wear so these must be the best of their kind that you can possibly afford . |
| 7 | So whenever you see people who 're not quite like you and maybe there 's something about their workstyle that you do n't like think about it this way . |
| 8 | When the counts of La Marche and Périgueux paid homage to the duke of Aquitaine , it implied acceptance on their part that to injure the duke 's person or property would be a breach of faith , but little more ; if they came to his court or assisted him on campaigns , it was because they saw profit or pleasure in so doing . |
| 9 | In the face of great hostility the clothiers then agreed to pay compensation of threepence a thrum , which suggests some degree of recognition on their part that thrums were part of the " customary wage " , whatever the legal position . |
| 10 | Sometimes these foals bought at sales and markets are so traumatized by their experience that they can never be handled . |
| 11 | The first step in the argument is their finding that HCG62 is enveloped in a large cloud of hot gas which extends well beyond the galaxies themselves . |
| 12 | Although these investigators were not specifically concerned with the notion of cerebral asymmetry of function , their finding that bilingual subjects recognised English words more accurately from the right of fixation but Yiddish words ( which are read from right-to-left ) more accurately from the left of fixation ( see also Orbach , 1967 ) sparked off a number of experiments designed to uncover the relationship between visual field asymmetry and a range of procedural and subject variables . |
| 13 | They support their conjecture that writing enables interpersonal meanings to be dominated by the logical functions of language , for instance , by citing the Royal Society of London . |
| 14 | The meeting with the Grant Assessment Panel of the Sports Council took place in February and Pauline explained how well the new plan had been received by the panel who had expressed their hope that the rise in membership numbers would be maintained . |
| 15 | Commercial organisations like the Co-operative Retail Society , the Co-operative Wholesale Society , Marks & Spencer and Iceland have expressed their horror that the Government should so abdicate their responsibility as to say , ’ We shall do nothing if you break the law , ’ and weakly add the unconvincing refrain , as the Home Office Minister did , ’ But we 'd rather like it if you did n't . ’ |
| 16 | They discover to their horror that they are still legally liable . |
| 17 | I think they demonstrated by their presence that here at least , there is no plank in the mind ; that a business man 's business today includes these ideological facts , includes dealing with what is in the hearts and minds of men . |
| 18 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 19 | It 's their money that made this possible . |
| 20 | He should also realise that tax is levied on people 's own money : it does not belong to the Government ; it is their money that the Government compulsorily take away from them in taxation . |
| 21 | Well everybody can make their money that 's the important . |
| 22 | Because it 's their money that 's gon na be |
| 23 | He reminds the visitor that so famed were Swiss soldiers for their heroism that monarchs vied with each other to hire them , and that the Swiss guards of Louis XVI died to a man in his defence when the mob stormed the Royal Palace in August 1792 . |
| 24 | The auditors said in their certificate that they had used one " methodology " rather than another and that it was not clear from the clause in the lease which methodology they should use . |
| 25 | There was bound to be something in their squat that would lead the police to him . |
| 26 | There is also no need for a person who has had the HIV antibody test to tell their GP that they have done so , especially if the result was negative . |
| 27 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 28 | Subsequently all four men were convicted of smuggling and their defence counsel stated in court in their defence that they were " the dupes and pawns in a high powered enterprise while the real criminals behind the racket were getting away scot free . " |
| 29 | And he also pointed out that the three detectives were going to claim in their defence that the Birmingham Six were guilty all along . |
| 30 | I costed this on the basis of staff receiving standard wages and being told on their contract that they would work 30 hours , to cover 24 hours a day . |